Episode Report Card Sara M: A- | 135 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT A Poolhouse Is Rory's New Home
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2005.05.17
Rory takes her final. Her professor gives the class a twenty-minute warning. Students write furiously, except Rory, who just sits there staring out the window, her head resting on her hand. Her exam book sits open in front of her, blank. It looks bad, but maybe the prof gave them one of those exams with only one question that's really long and hard, and then at the end of there question there's a sentence telling you not to write anything at all, so you're really just being tested on your ability to follow directions and Rory will get the best grade in the class.
Luke arrives at the Inn with his handy-dandy toolbox and Lorelai gives him a verbal list of today's needed repairs. He notices Lorelai's box of gifts and asks whom it's from. Lorelai says she has another lover who owns a diner in Woodbury. Luke ignores this and reads the gift basket card. He forgot all about the Mike Armstrong guy and never knew that Lorelai ever met with him. She says she did, at Luke's recommendation. She's thinking about his offer. Luke starts getting worked up over the fact that Lorelai might take this job; Lorelai smirks and says she probably won't, but that she's still "mulling" it over, because she loves to watch Luke squirm and be unhappy, apparently. Luke says thatif Lorelai takes the job, she could end up traveling all over the place, never mind where her new office would be. "What about the kids?!" he shrieks. "What...kids?" asks Lorelai. "Uh...nothing. Never mind, forget it," says Luke, and runs away to fix something before Lorelai can ask any more questions.
Lane comes home to Mama, who's working in the 20\% off section. It has a really nice-looking dollhouse in it. Lane tries to make some small talk, which doesn't go over well with her mother, whose talk is never small. So Lane gets to the real reason why she's visiting: the band is on the verge of breaking up, so she'll be moving back to the Kim house soon and let her mother enroll her in a Seventh-Day Adventist College. Lane waits for her mother to be all excited and happy that her daughter is finally walking down the path she made for her, Mama K's reaction is much different. "You are not the daughter I raised!" she says, rising in fury. She says she raised Lane never to give up, no matter what.